Anthropic hires Google's TPU founder

Anthropic has hired Amir Salek, the Google executive who helped deliver the first 7 generations of TPU, to join its compute team, according to Outlook Business’s report on the hire. Salek will report to James Bradbury; Anthropic has not announced a chip, manufacturing plan, or timetable, so this is a capability hire rather than a product launch. For builders, the signal is that frontier-model supply strategy is moving from buying accelerators toward co-designing inference hardware, a direction that sits beside the archive’s analysis of Anthropic’s compute financing.